We should tackle this from two angles. Fundraising and cutting expenses.

If we got four more corporate sponsors by GUADEC, that would cover this. Stormy has several that are strong potentials and a list of further potentials.

Use the Friends of GNOME fundraising for a sys admin. For example, we could say if we get 400 subscribers (one for every member of the Foundation) we'll hire a sys admin. That'd be more than enough. (Thinking a partime sys admin is $35-40K, can anyone confirm?)

At the same time, we should figure out what we will cut if we don't get four corporate sponsors by GUADEC. (Which seems tough.)

Stormy's bonus.

Some of Stormy's travel fund (couldn't save much more than $5-7K at this point).

Some of the community travel fund? (We have $5K more allocated for travel requests this year than last year.)

Figure out and count on a surplus from GUADEC? Expecting a surplus of €24.